Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
- Original title: Cosmopolis
- Canada, France, Italy, Portugal 2012, 109min
- English with Swedish subtitles
- Regi: David Cronenberg
- With: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon
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21.11.2012 |
20:30 |
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24.11.2012 |
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25.11.2012 |
22:00 |
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Cosmopolis is an adaptation of Don DeLillos novel by the same title from 2003. Cronenberg’s direction is very faithful to the novel. The dialogue is almost straight from the text. The important scenes in the white limo are recreated visually impressive, a symbol of wealth, but also a claustrophobic frame, trapped as if in a coffin. His regular photographer Peter Suschitzsky gives the film an incredible visual look. Composer Howard Shore adapts to the amount of dialogue, and the synth contributions in collaboration with Emily Haines (Metric) are very good.
New York is in turmoil; the age of capitalism is drawing to a close. Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a high finance golden boy, dives into a white limousine. While a visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan, Eric Packer has one obsession: getting a haircut at his barber's at the other end of the city. As the day goes by, chaos sets in, and he watches helplessly as his empire collapse. Also he is sure someone is going to assassinate him. When? Where? He is about to live the most decisive 24 hours of his life. The result is a black comedy, an almost hypnotic journey towards a strong finish.
Director
David Cronenberg (b. 1943) is known for films such as Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), Crash (1996), eXistenZ (1999), A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007) and A Dangerous Method (OIFF 2011).
Laurence Anyways
Laurence Anyways
- Original title: Laurence Anyways
- Canada, France 2012, 168min
- French with English subtitles
- Regi: Xavier Dolan
- With: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
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24.11.2012 |
21:00 |
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25.11.2012 |
17:00 |
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Laurence Anyways is a unique film experience. It is a story about love and sexuality. A man and a woman in Montreal, Canada in the 90’s. About a man trying to save his relationship with his fiancée after he discovers that he is a woman trapped in a man’s body. Transsexualism had and still has a whiff of taboo around it.
Melvil Poupaud (Laurence), Suzanne Clément (Fred) and Nathalie Baye (mother of Laurence) all deliver strong performances. The film’s photography is evocative and seductive. An eclectic music selection, from Fever Ray and Depeche Mode to Beethoven and Erik Satie helps in organic ways.
Under Xavier Dolan's direction, based on his own script, we are invited into an unusual love story, told in a stylish way, with a firm, imaginative grasp. That he is only 23 years old, and already filming his fourth film is impressive. Xavier Dolan has with his latest film already established himself as one of today’s best directors.
Director
Xavier Dolan (b. 1989) has worked as an actor since he was 6. He made his directorial debut with I Killed My Mother (OIFF 2009) at 19, followed by Heartbeat (2010). All of his movies has been screened at different selections at the Cannes Film Festival.
Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love
- Original title: Like Someone in Love
- France, Japan 2012, 109min
- Japanese with English subtitles
- Regi: Abbas Kiarostami
- With: Ryo Kase, Rin Takanashi, Denden
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THU |
22.11.2012 |
19:00 |
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23.11.2012 |
19:45 |
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Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has chosen to make his latest film in Japan. And his Tokyo scenes are glorious, with good help from the Japanese cinematographer Katsumi Yanagijima, who has won prizes for his photo for Takeshi Kitano and Isao Yukisada.
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of just twenty four hours, bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Like Someone in Love is a minimalistic and beautiful film in Kiarostami’s typical style.
Director
The Iranian director, poet and photografer Abbas Kiarostami (b.1940) has won prizes at festivals all over the world. Some of his most well-known movies are Close-Up (1990), Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999).
Penance
Penance
- Original title: Shokuzai
- Japan 2012, 270min
- Japanese with English subtitles
- Regi: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- With: Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Aoi, Eiko Koike, Sakura Ando, Chizuru Ikewaki, Teruyuki Kagawa
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25.11.2012 |
12:00 |
Filmens Hus, Tancred |
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Master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s lastest film is a chilling tale based on Minato Kanae’s novel Shokuzai. Originally made as a TV series, Penance shows Kurosawa’s continuing mix of arthouse and genre films. Through five chapters we get to know Asako, whose daughter Emili is brutally murdered at a young age. Her four best friends all saw the killer’s face, but insist that the shock of the event has wiped their memory clean. Fifteen years later the murder remains unsolved, and all the girls have grown up deeply scarred. But Asako's thirst for revenge has grown and she is determined to make the girls pay for their sins.
As Asako tracks the girls down, we see how the guilt has impacted their lives, and in the final chapter we learn what actually happened that fateful day – leading to events beyond what Asako ever could have expected. Penance was without doubt the best of the Japanese movies shown at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
NB: Ticket price kr 150,-
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born in Kobe and studied film at Rikkyo University. His directorial debut in 1983 was Kandagawa Warriors. A string of continually improving films followed: Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985), Eyes of the Spider (1997), Cure (1998), Charisma (1999), Seance (OIFF 2001), Pulse (OIFF 2002), Bright Future (OIFF 2003) and Tokyo Sonata (2008).
A Letter to Momo
A Letter to Momo
- Original title: Momo e no tegami
- Japan 2011, 120min
- Japanese with English subtitles
- Regi: Hiroyuki Okiura
- With: Cho, Karen Miyama, Toshiyuki Nishida
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24.11.2012 |
15:00 |
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25.11.2012 |
17:45 |
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Japanese anime at its best! After her fathers death, young Momo and her mother moves to a remote and quiet island. In a state of grief, she clings to an unfinished letter her father left her. Not long after they’ve arrived at the island, strange things start happening. Things disappear, and Momo starts hearing noises from the attic. Who is making the noises, and what is the meaning behind the mysterious letter from her father? Annoyed because her mother won’t believe her, Momo decides to explore what is really happening. This is the start of a supernatural and magical journey, where Momo meets weird creatures and discovers the story behind her father’s letter.
Director Hiroyuki Okiura worked on this film for seven years, and it shows: the film is beautifully made, with details and backgrounds that really shine. Okiura has also written the screenplay for this film. A Letter to Momo is a beautiful film that deserves to be seen on the big screen.
Director
Hiroyuki Okiura (b. 1966) is a Japanese director and animator, who is known for his detailed animation. A Letter to Momo (2012) is his third film as a director. His debut film, Jin Roh (OIFF 1999), won the Minami Toshiko Award at the 2000 Yubari Film Festival.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
- Original title: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
- USA 2012, 78min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Ben Shapiro
- With: Gregory Crewdson
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WED |
21.11.2012 |
15:00 |
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22.11.2012 |
17:00 |
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If you’ve seen one of photographer Gregory Crewdsons photos, you’ll never forget it. He doesn’t just “take” a photo – he creates them over weeks of preperation. Crewdsons makes unique, surreal and incredibly intricate pictures which can be described as one-frame films of american suburban life. Filmmakers like David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock are some of his main sources of inspiration. Crewdson directs every scene, taking care of the smallest of details, uses special effects and large technical crews.
Director Ben Shapiro has followed Crewdson for ten years, and in this documentary he gives us a unique insight into the photographer's thoughts, ideas, motivation and methods. We get to hear him reflect on his childhood and inspirations, and we get to take part in some of his epic productions where he sets houses on fire, shuts down city streets and builds huge sets – all in the pursuit of the perfect picture of a not so perfect world.
Director
Ben Shapiro is a New York-based director and cinematographer. His previous work has been shown on TV, major film festivals and at museums like New York's MoMa. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is his first feature-length documentary. Ben Shapiro is a guest at this years festival.
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
- Original title: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
- United Kingdom, Ireland 2012, 134min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Sophie Fiennes
- With: Slavoj Žižek
- Homepage
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21.11.2012 |
17:15 |
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23.11.2012 |
17:00 |
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“We are responsible for our dreams. This is the ultimate lesson of psychoanalysis – and fiction cinema.” The makers of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema return with The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology – the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices.
The philosophical provocateur Slavoj Žižek is the star of the film. He examines film clips from more than 20 films that help him click through capitalism, fascism, consumerism, Stalinism, religion and more. Fiennes follows the successful method from the first film, which physically inserts Žižek into recreations of famous movie sets. This time including films like A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, The Sound of Music, Titanic, Brazil, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jaws, Zabriskie Point and many more. Learn a lot, and have a really good time in the cinema.
Director
Sophie Fiennes (b. 1967) has previously made Hoover Street Revival (2003), The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006), VSPRS Show and Tell (2007), and Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (OIFF 2010).
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers
- Original title: Spring Breakers
- USA 2012, 92min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Harmony Korine
- With: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine
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23.11.2012 |
22:00 |
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24.11.2012 |
19:15 |
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James Franco and famous Disney actresses Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens tops the cast in Harmony Korine’s new film, Spring Breakers, which could prove to be just as groundbreaking as his debut, Gummo, was 15 years ago.
Best girlfriends Faith, Candy, Brit and Cotty attend the same college. They decide to go to Florida to celebrate the traditional Spring Break, and rob a fast food shack to fund the adventure. Once in Florida they get arrested for drug possession at a party and end up in jail. White trash-gangster Alien (James Franco) helps the four bikini-clad girls out of the courtroom, but in return he expects them to do a job for him, of course.
Spring Breakers is an ironic look at the American Dream and the teen quest of finding yourself - which turns out to mostly be an excuse for outrageous partying, including alcohol, sex and drugs. The film features a score by the popular electronic artist Skrillex.
Director
Harmony Korine (b. 1973) is an American screenwriter and director. He became known for writing the script to the movie Kids (Larry Clark 1995), and has also directed the movies Gummo (OIFF 1997), Julien Donkey-Boy (OIFF 1999), Mister Lonely (OIFF 2007) and Trash Humpers (OIFF 2009).
Blondie
Blondie
- Original title: Blondie
- Sweden 2012, 88min
- Swedish with English subtitles
- Regi: Jesper Ganslandt
- With: Carolina Gynning, Helena af Sandeberg, Alexandra Dahlström, Maria Göranzon, Olle Sarri
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THU |
22.11.2012 |
19:00 |
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24.11.2012 |
17:15 |
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After his successes Falkenberg Farewell and The Ape, Jesper Ganslandt returns with Blondie, an almost aggressive family drama with darkly funny undertones. Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges her big birthday party.
Ganslandt’s latest film is filled with drama and laughter, with strong and varied performances from an all star cast of Swedish female actors.
Director
Jesper Ganslandt (b. 1978) has previously directed Falkenberg Farewell (2006) and The Ape (OIFF 2009).
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
- Original title: It’s Such a Beautiful Day
- USA 2012, 62min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Don Hertzfeldt
- With: Don Hertzfeldt
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22.11.2012 |
23:00 |
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24.11.2012 |
12:00 |
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Cult director Don Hertzfeldt has taken his animated short film trilogy about the character Bill and edited it together into this award winning feature film. In the film we follow Bill’s seemingly mundane life, narrated through humourous and dramatic anecdotes by the director himself. The story takes a darker turn when we realise that Bill might suffer from a serious mental disorder.
The first film in the trilogy, Everything Will be OK premiered in 2006, and was followed by I am so Proud of You (2008) and It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012). All three films have won a number of awards and received rave reviews. Hertzfeldt has become known both as an outstanding storyteller, but also for his very special style of animation. He makes his films with an antique 35mm camera, and It’s Such a Beautiful Day shows what Hertzfeldt does best: his naïve and simple drawings, his use of old-fashioned animation techniques and his dark sense of humour.
Director
Don Hertzfeldt (b. 1976) is a filmmaker based in California. Hertzfeldt only works with animation and is known for his special style. He has won nearly 200 awards for his films, and Rejected (2000) was nominated for an Academy Award. It’s Such a Beautiful Day is his first feature film.
Persistence of Vision
Persistence of Vision
- Original title: Persistence of Vision
- Canada, United Kingdom, USA 2012, 83min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Kevin Schreck
- With: Art Babbitt, Howard Blake, Richard Burdett
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FRI |
23.11.2012 |
18:45 |
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24.11.2012 |
16:50 |
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Richard Williams is best known for his work as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), but his creative animation work can also be found in many film title sequences, commercials, logos and more. Everything was a basis for further experimentation and learning, but also to raise money for his dream project.
His film had the working title The Thief and the Cobbler, and its story was based on 1001 Nights. Williams wanted this to become his own personal masterpiece – an epic reinvention of animation. For nearly thirty years Williams worked tirelessly on the film. Director Kevin Schreck has interviewed people who worked on the film with Williams. These interviews have been combined with previously unseen scenes, artwork and rare archival footage, to tell the story of this unique film, and the director who was obsessed with it. This is the fascinating story of the greatest animated film, that was never made. Inspiring, beautiful and poignant.
Director
Kevin Schrek is an American director, based in New York. Persistence of Vision (2012) is Schrecks second feature film. His first documentary, The World According to David Liebe Hart, premiered in 2010.
Pieta
Pieta
- Original title: Pieta
- Korea, South 2012, 104min
- Korean with Norwegian subtitles
- Regi: Kim Ki-duk
- With: Min-soo Jo, Eunjin Kang, Jae-rok Kim
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THU |
22.11.2012 |
21:00 |
Filmens Hus, Lillebil |
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This year’s winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival! Pieta is an ambitious violent drama that borrows its title from Michelangelo's famous sculpture of the Virgin Mary with the dead Christ in her arms. It may sound like an odd combination, but director Kim Ki-Duk blends capitalism-bashing, religion and violence so brutal some audience members have left during the screening of this film about loan shark Lee Kang-do.
Lee Kang-do displays everything except pietà – grace – in his cash collection business. One day a woman claiming to be his mother shows up, leading to some dramatic events in his life. Kim Ki-Duk has said that with this film he wanted to discuss how money and success destroy that which is pure and create relationships of hatred between people.
Director
Kim Ki-Duk (b. 1960) is most known in Norway for the film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003). Oslo Film Festival has earlier shown The Isle (OIFF 2000), Bad Guy (OIFF 2002), Samaritan Girl (OIFF 2004), 3-Iron (OIFF 2005). Time (OIFF 2006) and Arirang (OIFF 2011). Pieta is his 18th film.
Side by Side
Side by Side
- Original title: Side by Side
- USA 2012, 99min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Christopher Kenneally
- With: Keanu Reeves, James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Robert Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, Lars von Trier
- Homepage
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SAT |
24.11.2012 |
15:00 |
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25.11.2012 |
22:20 |
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Keanu Reeves takes us on a journey through the world of cinema, looking at both the past and the future. Since the beginning of filmmaking, the standard format has been just that: film. Over the last 20 years a new form of digital filmmaking has developed and revolutionised the term “film”. Via in-depth interviews, Reeves explores the development and consequences this evolution has had for filmmakers like James Cameron, David Lynch, David Fincher, Martin Scorcese, Steven Soderbergh and Christopher Nolan, to name a few.
“For a film geek this movie is absolute heaven, a dream symposium in which directors, cinematographers, editors, and a few actors gather to opine on the details of their craft. It is worth a year of film school and at least 1,000 hours of DVD bonus commentary” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times).
Director
Christopher Kenneally has been working in the movie business since the late 90’s. He has previously made the documentary Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating (2004) and the short Looking Out for Number One (2009).
Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum
- Original title: Hong gao liang
- China 1987, 91min
- Mandarin with Norwegian subtitles
- Regi: Zhang Yimou
- With: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ten Rujun
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THU |
22.11.2012 |
17:00 |
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25.11.2012 |
20:00 |
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This year’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, wrote the novel Red Sorghum in 1987. The same year this film adaptation was made. It was Zhang Yimou’s directing debut, and the film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. This was also Gong Li’s first acting role.
Set in northern China in the late 1920’s, a group of men is carrying a young woman on a sedan chair through the desert landscape. The woman is 18-year old Jiver, who is to be married off in exchange for a donkey. The groom is the aging Li, a liquor trader. This is the start of a long and epic family saga.
The film is a very visual experience, with a colorful and rich imagery.
Director
Zhang Yimou (b. 1951) is a Chinese director, producer, actor and author. Movies like Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Not One Less (1999), Hero (2001) and House of Flying Daggers (2004) have made him one of the most well-known Chinese directors in the western world.
Fourplay
Fourplay
- Original title: Fourplay
- USA 2012, 80min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Kyle Henry
- With: Sara Sevigny, Danielle Rene, Jose Villerreal, Paul Soileau, Christeene
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23.11.2012 |
22:30 |
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24.11.2012 |
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Kyle Henry’s Fourplay consists of four short stories around sexual dilemmas and relationships. A lesbian choir singer has a secret crush on the pastor’s wife. When the couple go out of town, they ask her to dog-sit for the weekend. As she sleeps in their bed, she experiences intense sex dreams about the object of her affection.
A couple reaches a turning point in their relationship during a visit to the backroom of an adult shop. An insecure and far from well-endowed man has a surreal experience in a very sexually charged public restroom. And a transgender prostitute lends a hand to a paraplegic man in a beautiful and extraordinary story of tenderness. This film contains sexually explicit scenes.
Director
Kyle Henry's feature debut Room (2005) premiered at both Sundance and Directors’ Fortnight. Fourplay is his anthology-of-shorts follow up, again with Michael Stipe and Jim McKay as executive producers.
Codebreaker
Codebreaker
- Original title: Codebreaker
- United Kingdom, USA 2012, 81min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Clare Beavan
- With: Ed Stoppard, Henry Goodman, Steve Wozniak, Dermot Turing
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FRI |
23.11.2012 |
17:00 |
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25.11.2012 |
16:00 |
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Alan Turing’s name is unknown to most people despite him being one of the most important figures of the 20th century. Turing was instrumental in the development of the computer age, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, and his work decoding the German naval code during World War II helped save millions of lives. Many today place Turing alongside great thinkers such as Newton, Einstein and Darwin – yet few know his name, and even fewer his tragic story. Instead of being recognized, Turing was persecuted for being homosexual in a time where this was forbidden. In 1952 he was convicted and forced to undergo chemical castration. Two years later, at age 41, he committed suicide with cyanide.
Codebreaker is a drama-documentary detailing the highs and lows of Turing’s life, from his groundbreaking work, through the government’s persecution, and to his death in 1954.
Director
Clare Beavan is an Emmy Award-winning drama and documentary director and producer, with 20 years experience. Her work has been broadcast on major networks in the United States, the United Kingdom, and throughout the world. Her credits include Lee Strasberg: The Method Man (1998), The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004), and Simon Schama’s Power of Art (2006).
Starlet
Starlet
- Original title: Starlet
- USA 2012, 103min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Sean Baker
- With: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, James Ransone, Stella Maeve
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23.11.2012 |
20:30 |
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24.11.2012 |
18:30 |
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21-year old Jane lives in California’s San Fernando Valley, spending her days getting high with her dysfunctional roommates, Melissa and Mikey, while caring for her Chihuahua Starlet. Sadie is an elderly widow going through life alone tending to her flower garden. After a confrontation between the two women during Sadie’s yard sale, Jane discovers a large sum of cash hidden in an object from Sadie’s past. She tries to befriend the older woman in an attempt to solve the dilemma she’s in, and as their relationship grows, secrets emerge.
Dree Hemingway (daughter of Mariel and great-grandchild of Ernest) gets her breakthrough performance in this film. The film had it’s premiere at SXSW and its international premiere at Locarno Film Festival this year.
Director
Sean Baker was co-creator of the cult television series Greg the Bunny (with Seth Green and Sarah Silverman) and has since written and directed Take Out (2004) and Prince of Broadway (2008).
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths
- Original title: Seven Psychopaths
- United Kingdom 2012, 110min
- English with Norwegian subtitles
- Regi: Martin McDonagh
- With: Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Michael Pitt, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits
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21.11.2012 |
23:00 |
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The director of In Bruges is back with a successful and wild comedy with a star cast. Colin Farrell plays Marty, a screenwriter who struggles to find the inspiration to finish his screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. His best friend Billy is an unemployed actor who steals dogs and then collects a reward for returning them. He shares this doggy-napping business with the religious and ex-violent Hans, and one day the two manage to accidentally steal a small Shih Tzu belonging to Charlie, a dangerous gangster. This should provide enough inspiration for Marty’s screenplay, if he survives the chaos he gets mixed up in. Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie’s films seem to be stylistic role models for Seven Psychopaths. The film is full of cool movie references, and won the Audience Award at the International Film Festival in Toronto.
Director
Martin McDonagh (b. 1970) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director. He has won many prizes, including an Academy Award, for his first short Six Shooter (2005) and his first feature film In Bruges (2008).
Amour
Amour
- Original title: Amour
- France, Austria, Germany 2012, 127min
- French with Norwegian subtitles
- Regi: Michael Haneke
- With: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
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25.11.2012 |
20:00 |
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Amour won the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, just three years after receiving it for The White Ribbon. The elderly couple Georges (Trintignant) and Anne (Riva) are retired music teachers living in Paris. When Anne suddenly becomes ill, and gradually succumbs to her illness, she makes Georges promise that he won’t send her away, but will care for her himself. Their lifelong relationship is severely tested. How are you supposed to deal with your roles, life and relationship changing so dramatically? What do you do when the one you love no longer is the same? Can love handle this? The French acting legends Trintignant and Riva masterfully show us the couple's frustrations, daily struggles and tender moments, while Hanekes direction and script explores old age and illness with a realism that is both moving and brutal at once. Amour is an excellent film from a filmmaker who continues to gaze fearlessly, unblinkingly into the human soul.
Director
Michael Haneke (b. 1942) was born in Munich and grew up in Austria. He made his first film in 1989. His features include 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (OIFF 1994), Funny Games (1997/2007), La Pianiste (2001), Le Caché (2005) and The White Ribbon (OIFF 2009). He is one of seven directors who have won the prestigious Palme d’Or twice.
I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
- Original title: I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
- USA 2012, 24min
- English without subtitles
- Regi: Matt Wolf
- With: Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett
- Homepage
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24.11.2012 |
13:15 |
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Joe Brainard’s (1941–1994) many drawings, collages, assemblages, and paintings, as well as his short essays and verbal-visual collaborations, were celebrated during his lifetime. His evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem I Remember. The poem’s standardized format admits an incredible variety of images and feelings: “I remember Greyhound buses at night… I remember candy cigarettes like chalk… I remember leaning up against walls in queer bars…”
Filmmaker Matt Wolf’s archival montage combines audio recordings of Brainard reading from the poem, as well as an interview with his lifelong friend and collaborator, the poet Ron Padgett. The result is an inventive biography of Joe Brainard, and an elliptical dialog about friendship, nostalgia, and the strange wonders of memory.
Director
Matt Wolf is the director of the documentary Wild Combination (2008) about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. The film screened at OIFF 2008, and Matt Wolf was a guest at the festival.
Rafa
Rafa
- Original title: Rafa
- France, Portugal 2012, 25min
- Portuguese with English subtitles
- Regi: João Salaviza
- With: Rodrigo Perdigão, Joana de Verona, Nuno Bernando
Tickets
SAT |
24.11.2012 |
13:15 |
Filmens Hus, Tancred |
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Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Rafa is 13 years old. He lives in a small apartment in a southern suburb of Lisbon with his mother, his sister and his nephew. One summer night, Rafa learns that his mother has been arrested by the police. On the motorcycle of a friend, he crosses the bridge of April 25th and goes to the city center police station to see her and wait for her release. Night falls. Rafa has decided not to return home without his mother.
Director
João Salaviza (b. 1984) is from Lisbon. His film Arena (OIFF 2009) won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Whateverest
Whateverest
- Original title: Whateverest
- Norway 2012, 15min
- Norwegian with English subtitles
- Regi: Kristoffer Borgli
- With: Marius Solem Johansen, Jan Thomsen
Tickets
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24.11.2012 |
13:15 |
Filmens Hus, Tancred |
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Whateverest is a documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind a dance tune produced by Todd Terje called Inspector Norse. “Inspector Norse” is the internet alias of Marius Solem Johansen, a failed musician living in a small town, producing dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube.
The music video to Inspector Norse, based on clips from this short, won Best Dance Video – Budget at the this years UK Music Video Awards.
Director
Kristoffer Borgli’s (b. 1985) music videos have screened at festivals all over the world, earning him prices from the Canadian International Film Festival and the Norwegian Spellemann award, and his short film collaboration with The Golden Filter screened at the SXSW short film competition.
Opening Movie
Canada, France, Italy, Portugal
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Sentrum Scene 20:30
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 20:30
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 22:00
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 21:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 17:00
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 19:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 19:45
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 12:00
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 15:00
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 17:45
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Sentrum Scene 15:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 17:00
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Sentrum Scene 17:15
Filmens Hus, Tancred 17:00
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 22:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 19:15
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 19:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 17:15
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 23:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 12:00
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 18:45
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 16:50
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 21:00
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 15:00
Filmens Hus, Tancred 22:20
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 17:00
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 20:00
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 22:30
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 22:30
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 17:00
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 16:00
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Filmens Hus, Lillebil 20:30
Filmens Hus, Lillebil 18:30
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Sentrum Scene 23:00
Closing Movie
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 20:00
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 13:15
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 13:15
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Filmens Hus, Tancred 13:15